CALL FOR PAPERS: please forward merrily away, and forgive cross-postings
The London Merchant: Intersections between the Gild Class and Middle
English Literature (1 session)
Special Session of the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9 1999
How did the concerns of the gild class influence late medieval writers? Did
those writers have any effect on the gild system? In the past, papers on
the complex interactions between the gilds and Middle English literature
have tended to be grouped by literary genre or to appear as a tangential
interest to urban historians. This session aims to bring together those
isolated papers in panels on cycle drama, Chaucer, and the like, with the
intention of bringing literary scholars and historians of the gild class
into contact with each other. This session hopes to bring together papers
on late medieval English drama and poetry, within the specific context of
the urban history of the gilds and bourgeois. It solicits papers
approaching this and related topics from the directions and with the
methodologies of both literary and historical studies.
Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts of papers on this and
related topics to the session organizer:
Roger A. Ladd
University of Wisconsin
Dept. of English, Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
EMAIL: [log in to unmask] ***note that this is not the email address
listed in the printed Call For Papers***
Abstract with Abstract Cover Sheet must be received by 15 September 1998,
and should meet Medieval Institute requirements regarding new material and
a 20-minute reading time. Abstracts should be not exceed 500 words in
length, and should clearly indicate thesis, methodology and conclusions.
